In North Carolina:

«Oct. 20, 2022: One-stop, in-person early voting period begins.»

https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/upcoming-election

Uh… what?

«People tend not to click on headlines such as “Republicans Gaining Ground In A Few Key Senate Races, But With A Setback In Georgia; National Trends Unclear, Perhaps Some Hint Of A Republican Rebound, But It Could Just Be Noise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.”»

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/betting-markets-are-treating-the-midterm-elections-like-its-a-presidential-election/

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.”

«Azure Data Box is a physical migration service that helps transfer large amounts of data in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable way. The secure data transfer is accelerated by shipping you a proprietary Data Box storage device that has a maximum usable storage capacity of 80 terabytes. The Data Box is transported to and from your datacenter via a regional carrier. A rugged case protects and secures the Data Box from damage during transit.

You can order the Data Box device via the Azure portal to import or export data from Azure. Once the device is received, you can quickly set it up using the local web UI and connect it to your network. Once you’re finished transferring the data (either into or out of Azure), simply return the Data Box. If you’re transferring data into Azure, the data is automatically uploaded once Microsoft receives the Data Box back. The entire process is tracked end-to-end by the Data Box service in the Azure portal.»

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-azure-storage-services/6-identify-azure-data-migration-options

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/alex-jones-denounces-verdict.html?smid=url-share

Alex Jones is… the word escapes me. Outrageous. Indecent. Shameless. But also: venal, avaricious, mercenary, and crass (I really wish that word came from Crassus, the wealthy Roman general who wound up getting molten gold poured down his throat, but it comes from the Latin “crassus,” meaning “fat, coarse, insensitive”).

BUT: the people who listen to and believe him are just as bad. They don’t get a pass for being poor dupes, benighted fools.

BUT ALSO: this sort of thing isn’t helping:

«The laypeople were not as accurate in their predictions as the scientists in the Nature study, but the fact they were still able to predict many failed replications suggests that many of them have flaws that even a layperson can notice.»

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21504366/science-replication-crisis-peer-review-statistics

Are we entering a post-Enlightenment age, where the intelligent inquiry into the nature of things just doesn’t count for as much as it used to? Hopefully not, but c’mon, Science.

Top story on 538 right now.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/voting-rights-in-north-carolina-could-hinge-on-its-supreme-court-election/

This is why judicial elections are so important:

How can this still be happening? How can all the nice wishy-washy white people in the middle still be allowing this to happen? “Oh, I don’t know, John, do you really want to give away our jobs?” “Oh, I don’t know, John, those people really are kind of angry and violent and they just want to tear everything down.” SERIOUSLY??

Making jambalaya. My mother, daughter of a rocket scientist, spent at least one summer picking okra in Texas, and I HEARD about it. Thank you, farm workers @ufwupdates.